[Kevin J. Sinclair]
> Does  this  site-wide filtering   exist?   Net-wide  filtering?  Net-wide
> delete?   If not, could  they exist?  Should they?   It sounds to me like
> they   could,   and should.    But  anything   net-wide   sounds kind  of
> scary... has to be done carefully.
 
Yes, site-wide filtering exists:  the postmaster can command LISTSERV to
        SERVE [log in to unmask] OFF
 
No net-wide filtering exists except what's provided by spam control.
 
A sort of net-wide delete does exist when sent from the user:
        SIGNOFF * NETWIDE
... and of course such a request could be forged, not that I advocate that.
It is a reasonable way for the  attacked people to  recover from the attack
however.
 
My feeling  is that while  we  *could* affect these people's  subscriptions
netwide, it  would be wrong in this  situation because *they* are  the ones
being attacked,  not us.   (IMO this  whole thing  is clearly a  mail bomb,
using  our lists as  the attack vehicles --  NOT a pre-spam.)  Serving them
off, for example, would mean that these people,  who might use LISTSERV now
or in the future for real and legitimate purposes, could  no longer use any
LISTSERV services, just because someone had  attacked them with forged list
subscriptions.  In effect we'd be compounding the damage.
 
Norm
--
I confess
I love that / which caresses / me. I believe
Love has his / share in the / Sun's brilliance / and virtue  [Sappho]